Glorious Prospect- by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

Glorious Prospect

by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

To the true Christian one of the most wonderful passages in the Bible is Ephesians 2:7, where we read of God’s purpose, “That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” This passage appears the more wonderful when viewed in the light of its context.

Verses 2-6 tell how we were all once the “children of disobedience,” and therefore “by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” But then we read those wonderful words of hope, “But God.” “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love wherewith He loved us…” And the next verses tell how He has taken believers in Christ from the lowest position of condemnation and wrath and given them the highest place of favor and blessing in Christ at His own right hand in the heavenlies.

The simplest, humblest believer in Christ has been given this position in the heavenlies, for God no longer sees him in himself, but in Christ, who died for his sins. This is why St. Paul so often writes about “those who are in Christ Jesus.”

It is for the believer now to occupy this exalted position, to appropriate by faith the “all spiritual blessings” which are his in Christ (See Ephesians 1:3). Like Paul, he may be lifted by grace, through faith, above the troubles and sorrows of “this present evil age” and enjoy his position and blessings in the heavenlies in Christ. And even this is not all, for looking far ahead to the future the Apostle, by divine revelation, goes on to say (in Ephesians 2:7) that God has done this all for us, “that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.” 

Truths We Have in Christ

I am Redeemed ( Galatians 4:5 )

I am complete in Him (Colossians 2:10)

I am a New Creature ( 2 Corinthians 5:17 )

I am called to be a Saint ( Romans 1:7 )

I am accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:6)

I am more than a conqueror ( Romans 8:37 )

I am an Ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20 )

I am justified freely by His Grace ( Romans 3:24 )

I am looking for that blessed Hope ( Titus 2:13 )

I am the Temple of the Living God ( 2 Corinthians 6:16 )

I have redemption through His blood ( Ephesians 1:7 )

I am free from the law of sin and death ( Romans 8:2 )

I am a son and heir of God through Christ ( Galatians 4:7 )

I know the body is not one member but many (1 Corinthians 12:14)

I am not my own, for I am bought with a price (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

I am manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ( 2 Corinthians 3:3 )

I am not far but now made nigh by the blood of Christ

( Ephesians 2:13 )

I am sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30 )

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me

( Philippians 4:13 )

I am risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God

( Colossians 2:12 )

I am to endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ

( 2 Timothy 2:3 )

I am to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery

( Ephesians 3:9 )

I am presented holy, unblameable and unreproveable in His sight (Colossians 1:22)

I have redemption through His blood, and the forgiveness of sins ( Ephesians 1:7 )

I am blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3)

I am always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus (2 Corinthians 4:10)

I am washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus ( 1 Corinthians 6:11 )

I am to wait for Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. ( 1 Thessalonians 1:10 )

I am confident that He which hath begun a good work in me will perform it ( Philippians 1:6

I am saved by grace through faith and not of works lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8)

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me ( Galatians 2:20 )

I know this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27)

I faint not, though my outward man perish, my Inner Man is renewed day by day ( 2 Corinthians 4:16 )

I am a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15)

I am looking for the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13)

I know God hath raised us up and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6)

I am persuaded that nothing shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ ( Romans 8:38-39 )

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

And Ye Are Complete in Him (Colossians 2:10)

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